[crossfire] Remove or keep contact email addresses from map headers?

[Ruben Safir]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 11:50:27AM -0500, Rick Tanner wrote:
> On 6/17/23 3:32 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >On 6/16/23 13:37, Rick Tanner wrote:
> >>If there are no issues or concerns, I will take care of updating all the
> >>maps to remove this content.
> >
> >
> >leave it - it is a historical document
> 
> I disagree.
> 
> The entire code base, maps, and graphics are not historical documents.
> 

You can disagree but they are still historical documents and the 
signatures on them by departed developers is the very history of
crissfire, which itself has significant historical import.

Then there is copyright consideration.  Software is speach.


> They are a snapshot of what works and is required for the game to work.

Not annotations in the code.  They are just annotations.

> 
> As software packages are deprecated (Bug #946, SDL1.2 vs SDL2.x) or
> a better way is implemented (i.e., updated/improved graphics, broken
> gate in a map, reformatted for readability, and so on) the code
> changes. And continues on.
> 

That has nothing to do with the opening credits which are in the
comments of the code.

Those signatures are non-functional annoations.  If you dump the entire
code segmment, then obviously it is being dumped, allong with the
comments and notices.  Otherwise they serve as copyrigt notices and are
a historical record of campers from priovus generations who left their
mark.


Reuvain
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